Blank output from PDF

Antony Gelberg antony at antgel.co.uk
Wed Jul 12 09:07:15 PDT 2006


Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Antony Gelberg <antony at antgel.co.uk> wrote (Wednesday 12 July 2006 15:25):
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When we try to print
>> http://www.companybarclaycard.co.uk/forms/Charge_Cardholder_App.pdf,
> 
> This is a PDF version 1.5, made by "Creo Normalizer JTP", BTW...
> 
>> there is no output. 
> 
> What kind of printer was that?
> 
> *How* do you print? Using some PDF viewer, and the print button of 
> that program? (This would make that program try and convert the PDF
> to PostScript first, which may fail....)

Originally, yes.  Then I tried to convert it with pdftops as per my
reply to Helge.

> Or did you use the commandline "lp -d printername your.pdf"? This 
> would make the CUPS "pdftops" filter convert the file...

This worked, thank you.  Does this imply a bug in pdftops (xpdf-utils
version)?




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